figurative with a reference to sense 2 to play a game of brag: to try which can impose on or get the better of the other by boasting.
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释义 | the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > practise trickery [verb (intransitive)] > using bluff (7) to play a game of brag1845 figurative with a reference to sense 2 to play a game of brag: to try which can impose on or get the better of the other by boasting. gas1847 Cf. gas, n.1 6. transitive. U.S. To mislead (a person) by clever or persuasive talk; to tease, to bluff. Also (in African-American usage) with up. bluff1854 intransitive. To practise or attempt the imposition described in sense 2; to assume a bold, big, or boastful demeanour, in order to inspire an… to run a bluff on1887 The action of bluffing at cards, in the game of poker; see bluff, v.1 and cf. brag, n.1; also = poker, n.4 Hence, challenging or boastful language… four-flush1896 intransitive to act in a ‘bluffing’ or fraudulent manner; chiefly as fluff1902 Slang. intransitive. To bluff, to lie; also transitive, to falsify (accounts, etc.). blag1991 intransitive. To talk persuasively, if disingenuously, in an attempt to obtain or achieve something; to bluff; to scrounge, esp. by clever or… |
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